University of Chicago Library

Guide to the John Gunther Papers 1935-1967

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Special Collections Research Center
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Abstract:

John Gunther, journalist and writer. The John Gunther Papers consist of different draft versions of Gunther's books along with correspondence, articles, and notes related to these projects. Papers related to Chicago Revisited.

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Biographical Note

John Gunther, the internationally known journalist and writer, was born in 1901 in Chicago. He was educated in the public schools there and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1922, where he had been literary editor of the Daily Maroon, the campus newspaper. Soon after graduation he began work as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and remained in Europe until 1936. He was at various times in charge of Daily News offices in London, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, Rome, and Paris, and has worked or visited in every European country except Portugal. In 1936, he published the results of his early years of European experience in the first of his "inside" books, INSIDE EUROPE, which sold more than 500,000 copies.

For more than twenty years Gunther continued the writing of these phenomenally successful "inside" books which include INSIDE ASIA (1939), INSIDE LATIN AMERICA (1941), INSIDE U.S.A. (1947), INSIDE AFRICA (1955), INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY (1958), and most recently INSIDE EUROPE TODAY (1961). In addition, Gunther wrote a number of other books on current affairs as well as biographical studies of major figures in American life. These include D-DAY (1944), concerning the Allied invasion of Italy and the Mediterranean war in general; BEHIND THE CURTAIN (1949), investigating conditions in Europe at the time, especially the countries behind the Iron Curtain; ROOSEVELT IN RETROSPECT (1950); THE RIDDLE OF MACARTHUR (1951); EISENHOWER: THE MAN AND THE SYMBOL (1952); TAKEN AT THE FLOOD: THE STORY OF ALBERT D. LASKER (1960). In 1949, Gunther published the deeply moving account of the death of his young son, John, two years earlier, of a brain tumor, entitled DEATH BE NOT PROUD. In addition, he is the author of a series of juvenile books, which are revised versions for younger readers of chapters from INSIDE AFRICA and INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY. He has also written three other children's books on historical and mythical characters: ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1952), JULIUS CAESAR (1959), and THE GOLDEN FLEECE (1959). In 1955, Gunther prepared the text and captions for DAYS TO REMEMBER, a pictorial volume on America, 1945-1955, written in collaboration with Bernard Quint, associate art editor of Life.

Scope Note

When the papers were deposited, they included all of the material used by Gunther in preparing his manuscripts. Much of this material was discarded. This included numerous clippings, generally from well-known publications, newspapers such as The New York Times, the New York Herald-Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, The Times (London), the Manchester Guardian, magazines such as the New Statesman, The Nation, Time, Life, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Colliers, and Foreign Policy Reports. Also included were government documents and press releases, United Nations documents, pamphlets, both tourist-type and informational issued by official agencies and private organizations, and reprints of articles. The collection also contained numerous bibliographical notes which referred to page or volume in some published work. There were also cryptic notes, apparently reminders to the author to relate some anecdote or to include some point of fact. Also discarded were unmarked copies of manuscripts and unmarked galley proofs. The materials retained in the collection were those manuscripts and notes which showed most clearly Gunther's methods and sources of information. Gunther has described his work methods in two articles published in Harper's Magazine, March and April, 1961, entitled "The Fun of Writing the Inside Books," and in a longer book version of these articles published in 1962 entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.

The collection includes notes, manuscripts and proofs in various stages and correspondence dealing with Gunther's works. The material in the collection can be subdivided under several headings: manuscripts, correspondence, notes, and miscellaneous materials.

The manuscripts include the original manuscripts for all of Gunther's works. These are generally rough typewritten drafts, done by Gunther himself. They are heavily corrected with both major stylistic and substantive changes. Most of these revisions are in longhand, but Gunther also used the "cut and paste" method to rearrange paragraphs and phrases. Once this first attempt was in reasonably acceptable order, the first formal typing was done by a typist. Gunther then heavily revised this typewritten draft in the same manner described above. This is the First Revision or Second Draft of the manuscript. Occasionally there are three drafts of some chapters. Again the complete manuscript with these new revisions was typed and this clean copy revised. This Third or last Draft, called "the Printer's Copy," was not so heavily revised, but even so, there are usually a dozen cuts and changes, mostly to change "verbal felicities," (Gunther's phrase) on every page. The book was set in type from this copy. (If there had been no time to completely retype the First Revision, only those pages or fragments of pages which were heavily revised were retyped and inserted to make up the Printer's Copy.) Also included are the original manuscripts of Gunther's articles for magazines or newspapers, portions of which were sometimes included in the published books in revised form, and news dispatches which Gunther often wrote while on his various trips.

For several of Gunther's works, carbon copies of the original manuscript were sent to readers for correction or checking. Those sections which were annotated by Gunther's "experts" or specialists also make up part of the collection and are clearly indicated.

Galley proofs could be called the Fourth Draft, since Gunther revised them completely, mostly for stylistic reasons, but also to bring the book up to date by adding new material about persons or events.

The correspondence concerning the "inside" books, which is not an extensive part of the papers thus far deposited, has been divided into two sections. Informational and Post-publication. The "Informational" correspondence concerns questions of fact, answers to Gunther's inquiries, comments on manuscripts sent to "experts," material bringing Gunther up to date, suggestions from friends and acquaintances of people to see, etc. The "Post-publication" correspondence is from readers who commented on Gunther's works. Post-publication letters from well-known persons and from people who had corresponded with Gunther before publication are generally included in the Informational file. The correspondence is filed with the manuscripts and notes for the book with which it is concerned. However, there are two additional boxes of correspondence which include material concerning Gunther's publishers, Harper and Bros, and Hamish Hamilton, and some folders of miscellaneous correspondence which do not deal with specific books.

The notes constitute the major portion of the collection to date. Gunther wrote his notes longhand on small scratch pads. The great majority of these notes are interview notes, some from well-known persons in government, business or the arts, others with the average citizen, such as taxi cab drivers or the like. Others are notes taken at lunches, dinners, or parties. Generally, these notes are identified by the last name of the person interviewed, but sometimes they are simply marked "embassy," or "lunch," indicating that the notes were taken at an embassy meeting or affair, or at a luncheon party, or they are marked with the first name, the initials, or perhaps the nickname of the person interviewed. Gunther clipped all of his interview notes apart into thousand of little "sniblets" which were carefully subdivided into topics. He was generally very careful when cutting the notes apart to indicate the interviewee. In arranging these notes, however, they have been drawn together by the name of the person interviewed. Where possible, from internal evidence, from the published works, from Gunther's agendas of persons to see, they have been identified. Many, however, are not, and are simply listed under the last name on the guide or by Gunther's own designation.

The miscellaneous notes include a wide variety of material. Many are unmarked notes, which are generally Gunther's impressions of someone, someplace or some event. These have been filed by topic. Other notes are sentences, phrases, or paragraphs, which Gunther jotted down and which were subsequently used in the manuscript in some form or another. Also included are outlines for his chapters, names of persons to see or interview, itineraries, schedules, and agendas, as well as check sheets, proof sheets, libel sheets, and watch sheets. These latter were made by Gunther to determine the accuracy of his manuscript after rereading.

The miscellaneous materials section is made up of articles, memoranda, news dispatches and notes by other persons. In some countries, Gunther would commission someone on the local scene to prepare information papers. News dispatches, articles, and other memoranda, both published and unpublished, sent to Gunther by his colleagues and some of his contacts are included in this designation.

The collection is in 122 boxes. A guide to the material follows. The manuscripts are arranged by book publication date, beginning with INSIDE EUROPE. Preceding the guide to each book, there is a more detailed description of the material in each section. The juvenile books, correspondence, and materials from CHICAGO REVISTED are located at the end of the guide.

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Subject Headings

Gunther, John, 1929-1947

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Lasker, Albert Davis, 1880-1952

MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

University of Chicago

Cancer -- Patients -- Biography

Eastern question

Eastern question (Far East)

Propaganda, German

Teenagers-Diseases

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American

World War, 1939-1945-Mediterranean Sea

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy

Journalists -- Correspondence

Journalists -- Biography

Statesmen

Africa -- Description and travel

Asia -- Biography

Asia -- Politics and government

Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1930-1945

Europe -- Description and travel -- 1945-

Europe -- Kings and rulers

Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century

Europe, Central-Politics and government

Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Latin America -- Politics and government -- 20th century

Latin America -- Description and travel

Soviet Union

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991

United States -- Description and travel

INVENTORY

Series I: Inside Europe

INSIDE EUROPE, published in 1936, is the first of the "inside books." The papers are contained in seven boxes. With the exception of the chapters on Germany, there is only one complete revision of this material. The chapters on Germany, however, have two or three drafts. These additional drafts have been included with the original manuscript and have been so marked. The manuscripts, therefore, are as follows-

1. Original manuscript, including the additional drafts on Germany;

2. First Revision (Second Draft) which is a typed copy of the original manuscript, and is substantially the same as the published version; and

3. Galley proofs, with the author's corrections and additions.

The Printer's Copy was not included in the original deposit.

There were five editions of INSIDE EUROPE. The second edition (October, 1936) did not necessitate the setting up of new type, but merely required insertions. The manuscript inserts must be used with the pagination of the first edition. New chapters were also added. These manuscripts are found with the "Revised Edition." However, the last two editions, the New 1938 Edition and the 1940 War Edition, were complete reworkings of the book, including new typesetting. The pages of one of the published editions were pasted onto large sheets of paper and Gunther made his corrections on the pages themselves and in the margins. The original manuscripts of inserts and the new chapters are clearly indicated. In October 1938, there was another edition, entitled the Peace Edition, which included mainly a new introduction and one new chapter, entitled "The Fascist Offensive," which was inserted in the book as Chapter 7a. Galley proofs of the revisions are not included in the collection.

Manuscripts of twenty-one articles written by Gunther are also part of the papers. Most appeared in such magazines as Harpers, The Nation, and Foreign Affairs. They deal with a wide variety of subjects and have been listed alphabetically. Most are simply carbon copies of the manuscript. Several of the articles, or portions of them, were used in the published book, but only after being heavily revised. There are also press dispatches from the Balkans written by Gunther, and miscellaneous typewritten notes, mostly on Austria, where Gunther had been stationed for many years.

The correspondence concerning this book is not extensive. One folder contains several letters from U.S. Embassy officials in Rome, London, Prague, and Berlin which answer questions of fact posed by Gunther. There are also several letters from reporters answering certain of Gunther's questions. The post-publication letters came mostly from English readers generally pointing out minor errors of fact.

The research notes for INSIDE EUROPE are not as voluminous as those for some of Gunther's other books. He was, of course, much more intimately informed on European affairs, since he had spent eleven years in Europe as a foreign correspondent. There are some interview notes, particularly those on a talk with Thomas Masaryk, founder and first president of Czechoslovakia, several English politicians, and H. R. Knickerbocker, the well-informed American journalist. Most of the notes, arranged alphabetically by country and topic, are factual notes.

Among miscellaneous materials are articles, memoranda, and copies of dispatches by several of Gunther's colleagues.

Series II: Inside Asia

INSIDE ASIA, published in 1939, is the second of the "inside books." The materials for this work are contained in four boxes. The manuscripts are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, typed and corrected by Gunther

2. Printer's Copy, which is a typed carbon copy of the original manuscript (no. 1, above) with additional corrections, making the manuscript, therefore, the First Revision or the Second Draft.

The galley and page proofs were not included in the original deposit.

The original manuscript of the Second Edition, published in 1942, is a paste-up of the pages of the first edition with marginal corrections, numerous inserts, and a completely new chapter on Pearl Harbor.

The correspondence numbers about eighty letters, with Gunther's brief answers attached. It comes from all over the world, mostly pointing out errors in fact, or the misspelling of foreign words or names. Several letters, especially those from Sir Sekunder Hyat Khan, prime minister of Punjab in India, and Hendrik Van Loon, are particularly interesting. One letter, from Prince Chula of Siam, discusses political affairs in that country at great length, obviously from personal knowledge.

The research notes for INSIDE ASIA were not among the original deposit. Certain notes which deal with the 1942 Revision, as well as notes for an article in Fortune on the Middle East, are included in the collection.

Among miscellaneous materials are several long research papers on Palestine, Japan and China, apparently done for Gunther by observers on the spot.

Subseries 7: Correspondence

Box 11 Folder 16

A-C

Box 11 Folder 17

D-J

Box 11 Folder 18

K-N

Box 11 Folder 19

O-S

Box 11 Folder 20

T-Z

Series III: Inside Latin America

The papers for INSIDE LATIN AMERICA, published in 1941, are contained in seven boxes. As with Gunther's first two "inside" books, there is only one complete revision of the manuscript. The manuscript material is as follows:

1. Original manuscript, typed and corrected by Gunther

2. Printer's Copy, which is a typed copy of the original manuscript (no. 1, above) with corrections-thus, the First Revision or Second Draft; and

3. Galley proofs, corrected, but incomplete.

During Gunther's fact-finding trip, he wrote several articles for the North American Newspaper Alliance, and made several radio broadcasts. The manuscripts of this material, some of it used, but only after complete revision, is included among the papers.

The correspondence concerning this book is not extensive. The Informational correspondence is, however, of some interest. Gunther corresponded with U. S. State Department officials and embassy officials in the various countries he visited. There are confidential letters about the internal political scene from, among others, Claude Bowers, Ambassador to Chile; Spruille Braden, Ambassador to Colombia; Vernon Fluharty, an embassy official; Laurence Duggan of the State Department; and Overton Ellis, a legation official in El Salvador. There is also correspondence with several American journalists stationed in Latin America. The material is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The Post-publication correspondence, for the most part, deals with minor corrections of the text.

As in most of Gunther's other books, his major sources of information were his interview notes. Because Gunther did not list in his book, nor completely in his notes, the names of most of the persons whom he interviewed, it has been impossible to identify many of them. However, where possible, the interviewees have been at least tentatively identified. Gunther interviewed most of the Latin American presidents, numerous cabinet officials, politicians, journalists, American officials, and others. Among those interviewed were Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil; Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president of Chile; Eduardo Santos, president of Colombia; Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba; Lazero Cárdenas, former president of Mexico; Victor Haya de la Torre, APRA leader in Peru; and Luis Munoz Karín, governor of Puerto Rico.

Among miscellaneous materials are memoranda on individual politicians and political events prepared by newspaper correspondents for Gunther's information. These notes have been included with the material on each country and, where possible, the author has been identified.

Subseries 1: Original Manuscript

Box 12 Folder 1

Table of Contents, Note

Box 12 Folder 2

Chapter 1, Inside Latin America

Box 12 Folder 3

Chapter 2 Fifth Column and Hemisphere Defense

Box 12 Folder 4

Chapter 3 Avila Camacho Succeeds Cardenas

Box 12 Folder 5

Chapter 4 Mexico, Land, Revolution, People

Box 12 Folder 6

Chapter 5 General Lazaro Cardenas

Box 12 Folder 7

Chapter 6 Mexicans Left and Right

Box 12 Folder 8

Chapter 7 Foreign Policy and Axis Influence in Mexico

Box 12 Folder 9

Chapter 8 Two Dictators on Top (only section on General Martinez of El Salvador)

Box 12 Folder 10

Chapter 9 The Banana Republics

Box 12 Folder 11

Chapter 10 Panama, Zone, Country, and Defense

Box 12 Folder 12

Chapter 11 Hail Colombia

Box 12 Folder 13

Chapter 12 The High Cost of Venezuela

Box 12 Folder 14

Chapter 13 Ecuador on Edge

Box 12 Folder 15

Chapter 14 What Peru Is and Isn't

Box 12 Folder 16

Chapter 15 Tin and Tintypes in Bolivia

Box 12 Folder 17

Chapter 16 Popular Front in Chile

Box 12 Folder 18

Chapter 17 Chile Getting Hot

Box 12 Folder 19

Chapter 18 Paraguay is Ruritania

Box 12 Folder 20

Chapter 19 The Argentine Complex

Box 12 Folder 21

Chapter 20 Beef, Fifth Column, and Bases

Box 12 Folder 22

Chapter 21 These are Argentinians

Box 12 Folder 23

Chapter 22 Uruguay, the Denmark of Latin America

Box 12 Folder 24

Chapter 23 This Is Vargas

Box 12 Folder 25

Chapter 24 Behold Brazil

Box 12 Folder 26

Chapter 25 A Word About Commodities

Box 13 Folder 1

Chapter 26 Brazilian Roll Call

Box 13 Folder 2

Chapter 27 The Coming American Imperialism

Box 13 Folder 3

Chapter 28 Our Orphan Island

Box 13 Folder 4

Chapter 29 Columbus Called it Hispaniola

Box 13 Folder 5

Chapter 30 Cuba's Batista

Box 13 Folder 6

Chapter 31 What We Should Do About It

Box 13 Folder 7

Acknowledgments and Bibliography

Subseries 2: Printer's Copy

Box 13 Folder 8

Note, Chapters 1-2

Box 13 Folder 9

Chapters 3-4

Box 13 Folder 10

Chapters 5-7

Box 13 Folder 11

Chapters 8-10

Box 13 Folder 12

Chapters 11-12

Box 13 Folder 13

Chapters 13-14

Box 13 Folder 14

Chapters 15-18

Box 13 Folder 15

Chapters 19-22

Box 13 Folder 16

Chapters 23-26

Box 13 Folder 17

Chapters 27-28

Box 13 Folder 18

Chapters 29-31, Acknowledgments and Bibliography

Subseries 3: Magazine Article Manuscripts

Box 13 Folder 19

"Inside Latin America"

Box 13 Folder 20

Dispatches for North American Newspaper Alliance on Paraguay, Nicaragua, and Brazil

Box 13 Folder 21

Carbon copies of articles on hemispheric defense, Haya de la Torre, Gen. Camacho of Mexico, Costa Rica, and General Cardenas.

Subseries 4: Galley Proofs

Box 14 Folder 1

Chapters 1-2

Box 14 Folder 2

Chapters 3-4

Box 14 Folder 3

Chapters 5-6

Box 14 Folder 4

Chapter 7

Box 14 Folder 5

Chapter 18 (28 in published edition)

Box 14 Folder 6

Chapters 20-22 (19, 20, 21 in published edition)

Box 14 Folder 7

Chapter 24 (23 in published edition)

Box 14 Folder 8

Chapters 27, 29

Box 14 Folder 9

Chapters 30-31

Box 14 Folder 10

Chapters 3-4 (with questions by Gunther in margin and

Box 14 Folder 11

Chapters 5-7 answers by "Specialists")

Box 14 Folder 12

Printer's copy for dummy of book

Box 14 Folder 13

Gunther directions for map with text

Box 14 Folder 14

Original manuscripts of galley inserts

Subseries 5: Correspondence

Box 14 Folder 15

Informational correspondence-A-E

Box 14 Folder 16

Informational correspondence-F-Q

Box 14 Folder 17

Informational correspondence-R-Z, and unidentified

Box 14 Folder 18

Post-publication correspondence-A-C

Box 14 Folder 19

Post-publication correspondence-D-M

Box 14 Folder 20

Post-publication correspondence-N-Z, and unidentified

Box 14 Folder 21

Correspondence, memoranda in Spanish

Box 14 Folder 22

Review of Inside Latin America by Raymond G. Swing

Subseries 6: Research Notes-Argentina

Box 15 Folder 1

Interview notes

Norman Armour (Embassy official)

Mario Bravo (Socialist leader)

Spruille Braden (U.S. Ambassador to Colombia)

Diaz Herrara ("Diaz H.")

Col. Divine

Lawrence Duggan (State Department)

Box 15 Folder 2

Interview notes

Notes taken at "Embassy"

Mason Ford

Dr. Enrique Gil

Horan

Horsey? (U.P. Reporter)

Alonso Irogoyen (Economic expert) ("I")

Box 15 Folder 3

Interview notes

Matson

National City Bank Official

Mme. Rosa Oliver

Pinedo

Honorio Pueyrredon (former ambassador to U.S.)

Randall

Box 15 Folder 4

Interview notes

Julio Roca (Foreign Affairs Minister)

Salazar

Shaw

Solandro Soronda (Fascist leader)

"W___"

Miscellaneous

Box 15 Folder 5

Notes on Estancia Huetel; La Prensa; hoof and mouth disease

Box 15 Folder 6

Notes on Germans

Box 15 Folder 7

Biographical notes

Box 15 Folder 8

Biographical notes (prepared by Norman Carignan)

Box 15 Folder 9

Names, questions, agenda, outlines

Box 15 Folder 10

Miscellaneous notes

Subseries 7: Research Notes-Bolivia

Box 15 Folder 11

Interview notes

Spruille Braden (U.S. Ambassador to Colombia)

Benjamin Cohen (Chilean journalist, diplomat)

Box 15 Folder 12

Interview notes

Dawson (Embassy official)

Jenkins

Miscellaneous

Box 15 Folder 13

Miscellaneous notes; questions

Subseries 8: Research Notes-Brazil

Box 15 Folder 14

Interview notes

Adams

Joao Alberto (Rio chief of police)

Oswaldo Aranha (Foreign Minister)

Paolo de Bettencourt (Editor, Correio da Manha)

Francisco Campos (Justice and Interior Minister)

Box 15 Folder 15

Interview notes

Assis Chateaubriand (Newspaper publisher)

Arthur de Souza Costa (Finance Minister)

Crogan

Paul Einhorn (Press agent, Pan American Airways)

Lourival Fontes (Director of Propaganda)

Box 15 Folder 16

Interview notes

Hanke

Walter Kerr (journalist)

Knox

Col. Miller

Moses

Naval Attache

Neele

Herbert S. Polin (chemist)

Box 15 Folder 17

Interview notes

Hart Preston (Life photographer)

"Tassie"

"Ted" (Embassy official)

Getulio Vargas (President)

Box 15 Folder 18

Interview notes-Theo. A. Xanthaky (Embassy official; "Z")

Box 15 Folder 19

Interview notes-Miscellaneous

Box 15 Folder 20

Notes on defense, bases, relations with U.S.; economy, steel; Vargas

Box 15 Folder 21

Biographical notes

Box 15 Folder 22

Biographical notes (typewritten)

Box 15 Folder 23

Miscellaneous notes

Subseries 9: Research Notes-Chile

Box 16 Folder 1

Interview notes

Pedro Aguirre Cerda (President)

Mervin Bohan

Claude Bowers (U.S. Ambassador)

Box 16 Folder 2

Interview notes

Benjamin Cohen (journalist)

Carlos Contreras Labarca (Communist leader)

Faust

Horace Graham

Box 16 Folder 3

Interview notes

Charles Griffin (journalist)

Box 16 Folder 4

Interview notes

Horsey (U.P. reporter)

Bernardo Leighton (Falange leader)

Oscar Schnake Vergara (Socialist leader)

Box 16 Folder 5

Interview notes

Jorge Gonzaléz Von Marées (Nazi leader)

Webb (Embassy official?)

Miscellaneous

Box 16 Folder 6

Notes on economy

Box 16 Folder 7

Notes on politics, political leaders

Box 16 Folder 8

Biographical notes

Box 16 Folder 9

Political and biographical notes (Prepared by Harry Tomlinson, U.P.)

Box 16 Folder 10

Names, questions, agenda, outlines

Box 16 Folder 11

Miscellaneous notes

Subseries 10: Research Notes-Colombia

Box 16 Folder 12

Interview notes

Paul von Bauer (Head, Scadta, German airlines)

Mervin Bohan

Spruille Braden (U.S. Ambassador)

Vernon Fluharty (Vice consul)

Box 16 Folder 13

Interview notes

Laureano Gomez (Conservative leader)

Alfonso Lopez (Former president)

Luis Lopez de Mesa (Foreign Minister)

Eduardo Santos (President)

Wise

Wright

Miscellaneous

Box 16 Folder 14

Notes on Fifth Column, relations with U.S.; Falange; Communists

Box 16 Folder 15

Biographical notes

Box 16 Folder 16

Typewritten political memoranda

Box 16 Folder 17

Names; questions

Box 16 Folder 18

Miscellaneous notes

Subseries 11: Research Notes-Costa Rica

Box 16 Folder 19

Interview notes

George Chittenden

Lawrence Duggan (State Department official)

Overton Ellis (U.S. Legation, El Salvador)

William Hornibrook (U.S. Minister)

Tyler

Miscellaneous

Box 16 Folder 20

Biographical notes; miscellaneous notes; outlines

Subseries 12: Research Notes-Cuba

Box 16 Folder 21

Interview notes

Fulgencio Batista (President)

Jose Manuel Cortina (Foreign Minister)

Unidentified ("L")

Unidentified ("M", possibly George Messersmith, U.S. Ambassador)

Miscellaneous

Box 16 Folder 22

Notes on Batista

Box 16 Folder 23

Notes on politics; miscellaneous notes, questions, outlines

Subseries 13: Research Notes-Dominican Republic

Box 16 Folder 24

Interview notes

Scolten or Scolter

Miscellaneous

Box 16 Folder 25

Notes on refugees; miscellaneous notes

Subseries 14: Research Notes-Ecuador

Box 17 Folder 1

Interview notes

Galo Plaza (former Minister of war)

Read

Miscellaneous

Box 17 Folder 2

Notes on political leaders; the Church; the Fifth Column; dispute with Peru; Indians

Subseries 27: Research Notes-General Notes

Series IV: D-DAY

D-DAY, published in 1944, concerns the Allied invasion of Italy and the Mediterranean war in general. The material is contained in two boxes. The two manuscripts deposited are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, typed and corrected by Gunther; and

2. Printer's copy which is a carbon copy of the original manuscript (no. 1, above) with additional corrections.

Among other manuscripts are carbon copies of Gunther's dispatches, broadcasts, and articles written during his trip. During the D-Day trip he carried three credentials, and was working for three different organizations-the North American Newspaper Alliance, The Blue Network, and Readers' Digest.

The correspondence is not extensive, and is mostly made up of telegrams. One letter, however, from the American legation in Cairo, Egypt, concerns answers to certain questions that Gunther had submitted to the prime minister of Egypt.

The research notes also are not extensive. It would appear that most of the book was written from notes which Gunther kept in a diary during his six months in the Mediterranean area. However, the diary was not included in the original deposit. The majority of the notes concern the Balkan countries and the Middle East. Among the interview notes are those with Laurence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, and Sukru Saracoglu, Turkish prime minister. There are also miscellaneous notes on Field Marshal Alexander, Field Marshal Montgomery, and General Eisenhower, among others.

Series V: Inside U.S.A.

INSIDE U.S.A., the fourth of the "inside" books, was published in 1947. The materials concerning it are contained in twenty-three boxes. The manuscripts for this work are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, typed and corrected by Gunther;

2. Specialist Review Copy, which refers to a typed carbon copy of the original manuscripts with Gunther's corrections which was sent to various "experts" around the country for comment. A complete copy of this manuscript has been kept, though many of the pages and chapters were not annotated by the experts. However, included among the Informational Correspondence are letters of comment by these experts which refer to the pagination of this copy of the manuscript. Pages with comments by Gunther's publishers are also included.

3. First Revision or Second Draft, which is only fragmentary. Gunther employed his usual "cut and paste" method and large sections were revised in longhand. However, only those pages which were most heavily corrected were retyped. Some complete chapters were also retyped. These retyped pages and chapters were then further revised and added to the Printer's copy.

4. Printer's copy, which is, for the most part, a corrected copy of the Specialist Review Copy (no. 2, above) with the retyped pages of the First Revision (no. 3, above).

5. Galley proofs, with author's corrections and additions.

The original manuscript of the second edition, published in 1951, was a paste-up of the pages of the first edition with marginal corrections and numerous inserts. However, the paste-up pages were not included in the original deposit. The original manuscripts of the inserts, which were included, are numbered consecutively and must be collated with the pages of the first edition. Some of the manuscript inserts are only a few lines in length, others run to several pages. Galley proofs of the second edition, with the author's corrections, also make up part of this section.

The Informational Correspondence is extensive. This category includes a rough outline and tentative table of contents sent to various people for comment even before Gunther set out on his fact-finding trip. Among those who responded are journalists Louis Fischer of The Nation and Nicholas Roosevelt of The New York Times, Thomas Lamont of the J. P. Morgan Co., and author Mark Van Doren. Gunther corresponded with hundreds of people, including all forty-eight governors, senators, representatives, state office holders, mayors, and numerous other state and local officials, asking certain questions such as "who runs this state or city?" There is also extensive correspondence with newspaper publishers, editors, and reporters whom Gunther met on his trips and who were asked similar questions, or brought Gunther up to date on events since his visit. In addition, Gunther corresponded with many of the people whom he interviewed, asking for clarification of some points of fact or interpretation. The correspondence with Gunther's "experts," who read the various chapters for accuracy, is also included in this section. The informational category contains both pre- and post-publication material. It is arranged by state and alphabetically within each state.

The Post-Publication correspondence is primarily readers' response after publication. It includes one folder from prominent persons and personal friends of Gunther, probably segregated by Gunther or his secretary. Included among the correspondents are Stephen Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education, radio commentator Quincy Howe, Alf Landon, author Amy Loveman, journalist Anne O'Hare McCormick, H. L. Mencken, historian Allan Nevins, educator Anson Phelps Stokes, commentator Raymond Swing, and State Department official Sumner Welles. Apparently some of these comments were used by Gunther's publishers in their advertisements for the book. Specific correspondence commenting upon or criticizing individual chapters or parts of chapters, suggesting revisions, pointing out errors in fact, spelling or grammar, is arranged alphabetically by state and then by author. General correspondence relating to the book as a whole or a substantial portion is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

The research notes, which make up the majority of material in this section, are mainly interview notes. Gunther interviewed governors, senators, representatives, politicians on all levels, editors, publishers, reporters, businessmen, labor leaders, educators, clergymen, civic leader, farmers, authors and hundreds of others. Where possible, the interviewees have been identified. A representative sampling of those interviewed would include Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh, N. C., News & Observer, Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas, motion picture producer Walter Wanger, Robert Hutchins, then Chancellor of the University of Chicago, Mayor Wilson Wyatt of Louisville, Kentucky, labor leader Walter Reuther, Howard Johnson, Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, Harry Truman, then Vice President, Robert Moses, New York state and city official, professor Carl Friedrich of Harvard University, E. H. Crump, political boss of Memphis, Tennessee, David Lilienthal, director of TVA, Speaker Sam Rayburn, President George Albert Smith of the Mormon Church, Richard Neuberger, then an Oregon state senator, and author Lilian Smith, among others.

Subseries 1: Original Manuscript

Box 21 Folder 1

Table of Contents, Foreword

Box 21 Folder 2

Chapter 1, 2-California

Box 21 Folder 3

Chapter 3, 4-California, Henry Kaiser

Box 21 Folder 4

Chapter 5, 6-Nevada, Pacific Northwest

Box 21 Folder 5

Chapter 7, 8-Pacific Northwest

Box 21 Folder 6

Chapter 9, 10-Pacific Northwest, West

Box 21 Folder 7

Chapter 11, 12-Montana, MVA

Box 21 Folder 8

Chapter 13, 14-Utah, Colorado

Box 21 Folder 9

Chapter 15, 16-Wyoming, Dakotas

Box 21 Folder 10

Chapter 17, 18-Kansas, Middle West

Box 21 Folder 11

Chapter 20-Minnesota, Wisconsin

Box 22 Folder 1

Chapter 21, 22-Iowa, Missouri

Box 22 Folder 2

Chapter 23, 24-Illinois and Indiana, Vandenberg

Box 22 Folder 3

Chapter 25, 26-Ford and UAW, Chio

Box 22 Folder 4

Chapter 27, 28-Ohio, New England

Box 22 Folder 5

Chapter 29, 30-Saltonstall, New England

Box 22 Folder 6

Chapter 31, 32-Massachusetts, New York

Box 22 Folder 7

Chapter 33, 34-New York City, LaGuardia

Box 22 Folder 8

Chapter 35, 36-New Jersey, Pennsylvania

Box 22 Folder 9

Chapter 37, 38-Pennsylvania, Atlantic Seaboard

Box 23 Folder 1

Chapter 39, 40-Kentucky, South

Box 23 Folder 2

Chapter 41, 42-Negro, Southeast

Box 23 Folder 3

Chapter 43, 44-TVA, Tennessee and Arkansas

Box 23 Folder 4

Chapter 45, 46-Georgia, Cotton and Louisiana

Box 23 Folder 5

Chapter 47, 48-Texas, Texas

Box 23 Folder 6

Chapter 49, 50-Texas, Oklahoma

Box 23 Folder 7

Chapter 51, 52-Southwest, Finale

Box 23 Folder 8

Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Sources

Subseries 2: Specialist Review Copy

Box 23 Folder 9

Chapters 1-4-California

Box 23 Folder 10

Chapters 5-9-Nevada, Pacific Northwest

Box 24 Folder 1

Chapters 10-11-West, Montana

Box 24 Folder 2

Chapters 12-15-MVA, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming

Box 24 Folder 3

Chapters 16-18-Dakotas, Kansas, Middle West

Box 24 Folder 4

Chapters 20-22-Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri

Box 24 Folder 5

Chapters 23-26-Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio

Box 24 Folder 6

Chapters 27-31-Ohio, New England

Box 24 Folder 7

Chapters 32-34-New York

Box 24 Folder 8

Chapters 35-38-New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Atlantic Seaboard

Box 24 Folder 9

Chapters 39-41-Kentucky, South, Negroes

Box 24 Folder 10

Chapters 42-44-Southeast, Tennessee, TVA, Arkansas

Box 25 Folder 1

Chapters 45-46-Georgia, Cotton, Louisiana

Box 25 Folder 2

Chapters 47-49-Texas

Box 25 Folder 3

Chapters 50-51-Oklahoma, Southwest

Box 25 Folder 4

Chapter 52, Finale, Names

Box 25 Folder 5

Sources, Acknowledgments

Subseries 3: Specialist Review Copy for Harpers with Comments

Box 25 Folder 6

Foreword, Chapter 1, 2-California

Chapters 3, 4-California, Kaiser

Box 25 Folder 7

Chapters 6, 7-Pacific Northwest

Chapters 11, 12-Montana, MVA

Chapters 13, 14-Utah, Colorado

Box 25 Folder 8

Chapters 21, 23-Iowa, Illinois

Chapters 26, 27-Taft and Bricker, Ohio

Chapters 32, 33-New York

Box 25 Folder 9

Chapters 36, 39-Pennsylvania, Kentucky

Chapters 41-Negroes

Chapters 48, 49-Texas

Foreword, Chapter 52-Introduction, Conclusion

Box 25 Folder 10

Chapter 52-Finale

Subseries 4: First Revision

Box 25 Folder 11

Foreword

Chapters 1, 2, 3-California

Box 25 Folder 12

Chapter 4-Kaiser

Chapter 5-Nevada

Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9-Pacific Northwest

Box 25 Folder 13

Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13-the West

Box 25 Folder 14

Chapters 13, 14-Colorado, Wyoming

Chapter 19-Stassen

Box 26 Folder 1

Chapter 24-Vandenberg

Chapter 26-Ohio

Chapters 28, 29, 30-New England

Box 26 Folder 2

Chapter 31-New England

Box 26 Folder 3

Chapter 34-LaGuardia

Chapter 39-Kentucky

Chapters 47, 48, 49-Texas

Box 26 Folder 4

Chapters 50, 51-the Southwest

Subseries 5: Printer's Copy

Box 26 Folder 5

Foreword, Chapters 1, 2-California

Box 26 Folder 6

Chapters 3, 4-California, Kaiser

Box 26 Folder 7

Chapters 5, 6-Nevada, Pacific Northwest

Box 26 Folder 8

Chapters 7, 8-Pacific Northwest

Box 26 Folder 9

Chapters 9, 10-Pacific Northwest, the West

Box 26 Folder 10

Chapters 11, 12-Montana, MVA.

Box 26 Folder 11

Chapters 13, 14-Utah, Colorado

Box 26 Folder 12

Chapters 15, 16-Wyoming, Dakotas

Box 26 Folder 13

Chapters 17, 18-Kansas, Middle West

Box 26 Folder 14

Chapters 19, 20-Stassen, Minnesota, Wisconsin

Box 27 Folder 1

Chapters 21, 22-Iowa, Missouri

Box 27 Folder 2

Chapters 23, 24-Illinois and Indians, Vandenberg

Box 27 Folder 3

Chapters 25, 26-Ford and UAW, Ohio

Box 27 Folder 4

Chapters 27, 28-Ohio, New England

Box 27 Folder 5

Chapters 29, 30-Saltonshall, New England

Box 27 Folder 6

Chapters 31, 32-Massachusetts, New York

Box 27 Folder 7

Chapters 33, 34-New York City, LaGuardia

Box 27 Folder 8

Chapters 35, 36-New Jersey, Pennsylvania

Box 27 Folder 9

Chapters 37, 38-Pennsylvania, Atlantic Seaboard

Box 27 Folder 10

Chapters 39, 40-Kentucky, the South

Box 27 Folder 11

Chapter 41-Negroes

Box 27 Folder 12

Chapters 42, 43-Southeast, TVA

Box 27 Folder 13

Chapters 44, 45-Tennessee and Arkansas, Georgia

Box 28 Folder 1

Chapters 46, 47-Louisiana, Texas

Box 28 Folder 2

Chapters 48, 49-Texas

Box 28 Folder 3

Chapters 50, 51-Oklahoma, Southwest

Box 28 Folder 4

Chapter 52-Finale

Box 28 Folder 5

Acknowledgments

Box 28 Folder 6

Bibliography, Sources

Box 28 Folder 7

Synopsis (28 p.), advertising copy

Subseries 6: Galley Proofs

Box 28 Folder 8

Foreword, Chapters 1-4

Box 28 Folder 9

Chapters 5-16

Box 28 Folder 10

Chapters 16-22

Box 28 Folder 11

Chapters 24-32

Box 28 Folder 12

Chapters 33-40

Box 28 Folder 13

Chapters 41-47

Box 28 Folder 14

Chapters 48-52, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Maps, Miscellaneous

Box 28 Folder 15

Annotated copy of "The Story of TVA," by John Gunther, based on TVA chapter in published work, distributed by TVA

Box 29 Folder 1

Excerpts from galleys for publicity

Box 29 Folder 2

Page proofs of excerpts for publicity; short synopsis for publicity

Subseries 7: 1951 Revised Edition-Inserts and Galley Proofs

Box 29 Folder 3

Mss of insert revisions-Inserts 1-40

Box 29 Folder 4

Inserts 41-80

Box 29 Folder 5

Inserts 81-120

Box 29 Folder 6

Inserts 121-160

Box 29 Folder 7

Inserts 161-188

Box 29 Folder 8

Galley proofs-Chapters 1-12

Box 29 Folder 9

Galley proofs-Chapters 13-23

Box 29 Folder 10

Galley proofs-Chapters 24-31

Box 29 Folder 11

Galley proofs-Chapters 32-40

Box 29 Folder 12

Galley proofs-Chapters 41-52

Subseries 8: Correspondence and Related Material

Box 30 Folder 1

Rough outline and tentative table of contents sent to various people for comments, 40 replies (Louis Fischer, Thomas Lamont, Mark Van Doren, etc.)

Subseries 9: Informational Correspondence, Memoranda, Etc. (by State)

Box 30 Folder 2

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

Box 30 Folder 3

California

Box 30 Folder 4

Colorado

Connecticut

Box 30 Folder 5

Delaware

Box 30 Folder 6

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Box 30 Folder 7

Illinois

Box 30 Folder 8

Indiana

Box 30 Folder 9

Iowa

Box 30 Folder 10

Kansas

Kentucky

Box 30 Folder 11

Louisiana

Box 30 Folder 12

Maine

Maryland

Box 30 Folder 13

Massachusetts

Box 30 Folder 14

Michigan

Box 30 Folder 15

Minnesota

Box 30 Folder 16

Mississippi

Missouri

Box 30 Folder 17

Montana

Box 30 Folder 18

Nebraska

Box 30 Folder 19

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

Box 30 Folder 20

New York

Box 30 Folder 21

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Box 30 Folder 22

Oklahoma

Box 30 Folder 23

Oregon

Box 31 Folder 1

Pennsylvania

Box 31 Folder 2

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Box 31 Folder 3

Texas

Box 31 Folder 4

Utah

Box 31 Folder 5

Vermont

Virginia

Box 31 Folder 6

Washington

West Virginia

Box 31 Folder 7

Wisconsin

Box 31 Folder 8

Wyoming

Alaska

Hawaii

Box 31 Folder 9

Miscellaneous (General data on more than one state)

Box 31 Folder 10

Tennessee Valley Authority

Missouri Valley Authority

Box 31 Folder 11

Henry J. Kaiser and Company

Box 31 Folder 12

Correspondence with lawyers on possible libel

Box 31 Folder 13

Correspondence requesting permissions to quote

Box 31 Folder 14

Personal correspondence

Box 31 Folder 15

Correspondence in re "The Giant World of Texas," Reader's Digest, July, 1946

Box 31 Folder 16

Correspondence in re "California the Golden," Holiday, January, 1947

Subseries 10: Post-Publication Correspondence

Box 32 Folder 1

Correspondence from prominent persons and personal friends of Gunther in response to book

Series VI: Death Be Not Proud

DEATH BE NOT PROUD is a different type of work than any of Gunther's other books. It is a personal memoir and a memorial to Gunther's son, John, Jr., who died in 1947 of a brain tumor after a long and courageous struggle. The original manuscript of DEATH BE NOT PROUD is not a part of the papers deposited with the University of Chicago. Gunther donated the manuscript to the New York Public Library. However, a carbon copy of the original manuscript is included. The printer's copy and galley or page proofs were not a part of the original deposit.

The research notes for this work are, of course, very different from those in the rest of the collection. Included in this section are school and camp reports, medical reports, correspondence with doctors, and numerous longhand notes. These longhand notes, which had been cut into small pieces, record Gunther's own memories, the recollections of Frances Gunther, and of others, including Johnny himself, who kept a diary, of the events which transpired during the long illness. These notes have been arranged chronologically, as they were when deposited.

The correspondence is the most extensive part of the material on this work. There are two folders of personal correspondence, all post-publication, from friends of Gunther commenting on the book. There are also four boxes, containing approximately four thousand letters from the general public. The book obviously evoked strong feelings on the part of the readers. The letters are from people who had suffered similar tragedies, some whose relatives were then suffering from cancer, letters of general sympathy from children and adults from all over the world. The book had been condensed in The Ladies' Home Journal, in the Readers' Digest and its eleven international editions, and later in Coronet, thus having a very wide circulation. The correspondence has been arranged alphabetically within each alphabetical letter. One folder of letters has been segregated. They were used in the introduction to the second edition published in 1953. There is also one folder of letters to Lewis Gannett who wrote a review of the book for the New York Herald-Tribune, and one folder containing letters to Gunther on an article entitled "The Cancer in our Breasts," which was published in McCall's Magazine in 1950.

The material for the book is contained in five boxes.

Subseries 1: Original Manuscript

Box 44 Folder 1

Foreword, Chapter 1

Box 44 Folder 2

Chapters 2-3

Box 44 Folder 3

Chapters 4-5

Box 44 Folder 4

Aftermath, Part Two (Letters), The Diary

Subseries 2: Research Notes

Box 44 Folder 5

School and camp reports on John Jr., 1938-1947

Box 44 Folder 6

Medical Reports and Autopsy; 1946-1947; Death Certificate, Funeral

Box 44 Folder 7

Correspondence to JG from doctors, 1946-1947

Box 44 Folder 8

Notes (handwritten) on Part I

Box 44 Folder 9

Notes on Part 2-April-May 1946

Box 44 Folder 10

Notes on Part 2-June-August 1946

Box 44 Folder 11

Notes on Part 2-September 1946-February 1947

Box 44 Folder 12

Notes on Part 2-March-May 1947

Box 44 Folder 13

Notes on Part 2-June 1947

Box 44 Folder 14

Notes on Part 2-Funeral

Box 44 Folder 15

Notes on Part 2-Questions to doctors and JG notes on answers

Box 44 Folder 16

Notes on Part 2-Chronology

Box 44 Folder 17

Notes on Part 2-Notes on the 1st draft

Box 44 Folder 18

Notes on Part 2-Carbon copy (1st draft) Frances Gunther chapter

Box 44 Folder 19

Notes on Part 2-Notes by Frances

Box 44 Folder 20

Notes on Part 2-Material in Johnny's handwriting

Box 44 Folder 21

Clippings-Obituaries

Subseries 3: Correspondence

Box 44 Folder 22

Personal Correspondence A-N

Box 44 Folder 23

Personal Correspondence N-Z

Subseries 4: Post-publication Correspondence

Box 45 Folder 1

A

Box 45 Folder 2

B

Box 45 Folder 3

B

Box 45 Folder 4

B

Box 45 Folder 5

C

Box 45 Folder 6

C

Box 45 Folder 7

D

Box 45 Folder 8

E

Box 45 Folder 9

F

Box 45 Folder 10

F

Box 46 Folder 1

G

Box 46 Folder 2

G

Box 46 Folder 3

H

Box 46 Folder 4

H

Box 46 Folder 5

H

Box 46 Folder 6

I-J

Box 46 Folder 7

K

Box 46 Folder 8

K

Box 46 Folder 9

L

Box 46 Folder 10

L

Box 47 Folder 1

M

Box 47 Folder 2

M

Box 47 Folder 3

M

Box 47 Folder 4

M

Box 47 Folder 5

N

Box 47 Folder 6

O

Box 47 Folder 7

P

Box 47 Folder 8

P

Box 47 Folder 9

R

Box 47 Folder 10

R

Box 48 Folder 1

S

Box 48 Folder 2

S

Box 48 Folder 3

S

Box 48 Folder 4

T

Box 48 Folder 5

U-V

Box 48 Folder 6

W

Box 48 Folder 7

W

Box 48 Folder 8

W

Box 48 Folder 9

Y-Z

Box 48 Folder 10

UNSIGNED

Box 48 Folder 11

Letters used in introduction to 2nd Edition 1953

Box 48 Folder 12

Letters to Lewis Gannett on review of Death Be Not Proud

Box 48 Folder 13

Letters to JG about his McCall's article on Cancer (1950)

Box 48 Folder 14

Copy of script of radio reading, University of North Carolina

Series VII: Behind the Curtain

The papers concerning BEHIND THE CURTAIN, published in 1949, are contained in five boxes. Like several other of Gunther's books, BEHIND THE CURTAIN was first conceived as a series of articles for Look magazine and the New York Herald-Tribune. In arranging the manuscripts, the Look and Herald-Tribune articles are included as the original manuscript. Gunther, in most cases, pasted the published versions onto pieces of paper and then heavily revised them. More than half the book, however, is new material. The manuscripts are as follows:

1. Original manuscript-Look magazine articles-however, only four of the manuscripts of the nine articles are included.

2. Original manuscript-New York Herald-Tribune articles, published under the general title "Inside Europe Today."

3. First Revision or Second Draft, which is the original manuscript for the book version, including revisions of above articles and additions.

4. Printer's copy, with author's corrections.

The correspondence concerning this book is not extensive, but among the more interesting letters are those from M. W. Fodor, a long-time European journalist connected with the American Military Government for Germany, and a letter from Dr. W. C. Weiskopf, Minister Plenipotentiary of Czechoslovakia to the United States.

The interview notes are of special interest. Gunther talked with most of the leaders of Europe during his preparation for the book. Among the many statesmen, journalists, businessmen, and others whom Gunther interviewed are Pope Pius XII, Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi of Italy, Marshal Josip Tito of Yugoslavia, Matyas Rakosi, communist leader of Hungary, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Laurence Steinhardt, General Lucius Clay, American Military Governor of Germany, and Jacques Soustelle, Gaullist leader in France.

Notes on history, 1945-1947; notes on Rakosi; notes on Cardinal Mindszenty; the "Conspiracy;" a Budapest market; the Manfred Weiss factory

Box 52 Folder 21

Miscellaneous notes; names

Subseries 12: Research Materials-Czechoslovakia

Box 53 Folder 1

Interview notes

Vladimir Clementis (Foreign Minister)

Gaston Coblentz (journalist)

Zdenek Fierlinger (former Prime Minister)

Antonin Zapotocky (Prime Minister)

Miscellaneous

Box 53 Folder 2

Interview notes

Laurence Steinhardt (U.S. Ambassador)

Box 53 Folder 3

Miscellaneous notes; questions; names

Subseries 13: Research Materials-Poland

Box 53 Folder 4

Interview notes

Jakub Berman (Undersecretary of State)

Wiktor Grosz (Press Affairs and Information)

Box 53 Folder 5

Interview notes

Sidney Gruson (journalist)

Hilary Minc (Economic administrator)

Kantorowitz

Litauer

Schwimm

Miscellaneous

Box 53 Folder 6

Notes on Warsaw

Box 53 Folder 7

Miscellaneous notes

Subseries 14: Research Materials-Austria

Box 53 Folder 8

Interview notes

Desmond Balmer (U.S. General)

Ernst Fischer (Communist leader)

Box 53 Folder 9

Interview notes

Karl Gruber (Foreign Minister)

Martin Herz

Geoffrey Keyes (U.S. High Commissioner)

Pollak

Box 53 Folder 10

Miscellaneous notes; names

Subseries 15: Research Materials-Germany

Box 53 Folder 11

Interview notes

Ralph Beck

Lucius Clay (U.S. Administrator of American zone)

Box 53 Folder 12

Interview notes

M. W. Fodor (journalist)

Box 53 Folder 13

Interview notes

George Rays (U.S. General; Deputy Military Governor)

Laurence Steinhardt (U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia

Notes taken at "Lunch"

Miscellaneous

Box 53 Folder 14

Notes on German political parties, politicians

Box 53 Folder 15

Notes on Berlin

Box 53 Folder 16

Miscellaneous notes; names

Subseries 16: Research Materials-France

Box 53 Folder 17

Interview notes

Walter Kerr (journalist)

Tylor

Jacques Soustelle (Gaullist leader)

Miscellaneous

Box 53 Folder 18

Miscellaneous notes; names

Box 53 Folder 19

Miscellaneous notes on Belgium and Holland

Subseries 17: Research Materials-Great Britain

Box 53 Folder 20

Interview notes

Ernest Bevin (Foreign Secretary)

Richard Crossman (Labor M.P.)

Anthony Eden (former Foreign Secretary)

Thomas Finletter (New York Lawyer)

Miscellaneous

Box 53 Folder 21

Miscellaneous notes

Subseries 18: Miscellaneous Materials

Box 53 Folder 22

Outlines of chapters

Box 53 Folder 23

Check sheets; watch sheets; proof sheets

Series VIII: Roosevelt in Retrospect

The material for ROOSEVELT IN RETROSPECT, published in 1950, is contained in six boxes. The manuscripts for this work are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, typed and corrected by Gunther, however it appears that chapters 5B, 5C and 17 were not written at the same time as the rest of the original manuscript. The First Revision of these three chapters is included in the Printer's copy.

2. First Revision or Second Draft, with author's additional revisions and corrections;

3. Printer's copy, with author's corrections;

4. Galley proofs, with author's corrections.

The original manuscripts of three magazine articles are also included.

The correspondence, of which there are only four folders, indicates that this book evoked strong sentiments either for or against FDR. Among the more interesting letters are those from several people who knew or had met FDR and wished to relate to Gunther their own reminiscences. There is also a long memorandum by Grace Tully, FDR's personal secretary, on the inaccuracies in the book.

The majority of the notes are interview notes. Gunther interviewed more than eighty persons, and where possible, the interviewees are identified on the guide. Gunther had extensive interviews with Bernard Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Sherwood, Laurence Steinhardt, Summer Welles, and many others. Also included among the notes are those of an interview with FDR in 1941.

Subseries 1: Original Manuscript

Box 54 Folder 1

Tentative Table of Contents (2 versions)

Box 54 Folder 2

Foreword

Box 54 Folder 3

Chapter 1 The Historical Perspective (2 versions) (1)

Box 54 Folder 4

Chapter 2 Untitled (2)

Box 54 Folder 5

Chapter 3 The Political and Human Being (3-4)

Box 54 Folder 6

Chapter 4 Some Qualities of Heart (3-4)

Box 54 Folder 7

Chapter 5A Structure and Makeup of His Mind (5)

Box 54 Folder 8

Chapter 5B More About FDR the Man (7)

Box 54 Folder 9

Chapter 5C The President at Work (8)

Box 54 Folder 10

Chapter 6 The Background of Hyde Park (6,9)

Box 54 Folder 11

Chapter 7 The Bloom of Youth (9-10)

Box 54 Folder 12

Chapter 8 Lady Who Became First Lady (11)

Box 54 Folder 13

Chapter 9 Novitiate of the Young Patrician (12)

Box 54 Folder 14

Chapter 10 Disaster (13)

Box 54 Folder 15

Chapter 11 Back to Life (14)

Box 54 Folder 16

Chapter 12 The Springboard Quivers (15)

Box 54 Folder 17

Chapter 13 Peace President (16)

Box 54 Folder 18

Chapter 14 Into War (17)

Box 55 Folder 1

Chapter 15 War President (18)

Box 55 Folder 2

Chapter 16 Fourth Term and Yalta (19)

Box 55 Folder 3

Chapter 17 Death the End (20)

Box 55 Folder 4

Bibliography and Acknowledgments

Subseries 2: First Revision (Second Draft)

Box 55 Folder 5

Foreword

Box 55 Folder 6

Chapter 1 The Historical Perspective

Box 55 Folder 7

Chapter 2 Personal

Box 55 Folder 8

Chapter 3 Some Major Qualities and Attributes

Box 55 Folder 9

Chapter 4 Factors of the Demerit Side and Others

Box 55 Folder 10

Chapter 5 Roosevelt the Human Being

Box 55 Folder 11

Chapter 5A The Home, Library, and Collections (6)

Box 55 Folder 12

Chapter 6 The Background of Hyde Park (9)

Box 55 Folder 13

Chapter 7 The Bloom of Youth (10)

Box 55 Folder 14

Chapter 8 Lady Who Became First Lady (11)

Box 55 Folder 15

Chapter 9 Novitiate of the Young Patrician (12)

Box 55 Folder 16

Chapter 10 Disaster (13)

Box 55 Folder 17

Chapter 11 Back to Life (14)

Box 55 Folder 17

Chapter 12 The Springboard Quivers (15)

Box 56 Folder 1

Chapter 13 Peace President (16)

Box 56 Folder 2

Chapter 14 Into War (17)

Box 56 Folder 3

Chapter 15 War President (18)

Box 56 Folder 4

Chapter 16 Fourth Term and Yalta (19)

Subseries 3: Printer's Copy

Box 56 Folder 5

Table of Contents, Dedication, Foreword

Box 56 Folder 6

Chapter 1

Box 56 Folder 7

Chapter 2

Box 56 Folder 8

Chapter 3

Box 56 Folder 9

Chapter 4

Box 56 Folder 10

Chapter 5

Box 56 Folder 11

Chapter 6

Box 56 Folder 12

Chapter 7

Box 56 Folder 13

Chapter 8

Box 56 Folder 14

Chapter 9

Box 56 Folder 15

Chapter 10

Box 56 Folder 16

Chapter 11

Box 56 Folder 17

Chapter 12

Box 56 Folder 18

Chapter 13

Box 56 Folder 19

Chapter 14

Box 56 Folder 20

Chapter 15

Box 57 Folder 1

Chapter 16

Box 57 Folder 2

Chapter 17

Box 57 Folder 3

Chapter 18

Box 57 Folder 4

Chapter 19

Box 57 Folder 5

Chapter 20

Box 57 Folder 6

Bibliography and Acknowledgments

Subseries 4: Galley Proofs

Box 57 Folder 7

Foreword, Chapters 1-5

Box 57 Folder 8

Chapters 6-10

Box 57 Folder 9

Chapters 11-15

Box 57 Folder 10

Chapters 16-20, Bibliography and Acknowledgments

Subseries 5: Original Manuscripts of Articles

Box 57 Folder 11

"The Greatest Woman in the World"

Box 57 Folder 12

"A Room With the View"

Box 57 Folder 13

"Stalin's Hands on Your Future"

Subseries 6: Correspondence

Box 57 Folder 14

Pre-publication and personal

Box 57 Folder 15

Post-publication-A-G

Box 57 Folder 16

Post-publication-H-M

Box 57 Folder 17

Post-publication-N-Z, unsigned

Subseries 7: Interview Notes

Box 58 Folder 1

Acheson, Dean-Undersecretary of Treasury, Assistant Secretary of State ("Dean")

Subseries 9: Miscellaneous Notes by Others

Box 59 Folder 18

Notes collected by Frederick Lewis Allen

Box 59 Folder 19

"Cycle of Cathay-Japan, China and the Cairo Agreement," by Barnet Nover

Series IX: The Riddle of MacArthur

The material for THE RIDDLE OF MACARTHUR, published in 1951, is contained in three boxes. The original manuscript and the First Revision were not included in the original deposit, nor were galley proofs, but page proofs, which were not heavily revised as was Gunther's method on galley proofs, are a part of the collection. The manuscripts, therefore, are as follows:

1. Printer's copy. with author's corrections;

2. Page proofs.

Also included among the manuscripts are carbon copies of news dispatches cabled by Gunther to Look magazine on the Korean War and the Far East.

The correspondence concerning THE RIDDLE OF MACARTHUR is not extensive. Among the letters of particular interest are those from Frank Rizzo, a high civilian official in the Occupation Government, and a letter from Samuel E. Morison on naval history. The Post-publication correspondence consists mostly of readers' comment, some quite irate over Gunther's interpretation of MacArthur.

The majority of the research notes are interview notes. Among those interviewed by Gunther were Emperor Hirohito, General MacArthur, Prime Minister Yoshida, various high American officers on MacArthur's staff, civilian employees of SCAP, Japanese politicians and businessmen.

Subseries 1: Manuscripts

Box 60 Folder 1

Tentative Table of Contents; Outlines

Subseries 2: Printer's Copy

Box 60 Folder 2

Table of Contents, Note, Foreword

Box 60 Folder 3

Chapter 1 Caesar of the Pacific

Box 60 Folder 4

Chapter 2 What MacArthur Is, And How He Got There

Box 60 Folder 5

Chapter 3 The Life and the Legends

Box 60 Folder 6

Chapter 4 More About MacArthur the Man

Box 60 Folder 7

Chapter 5 Tokyo Today

Box 60 Folder 8

Chapter 6 Brief Disquisition on the Emperor

Box 60 Folder 9

Chapter 7 The Record of the Occupation

Box 60 Folder 10

Chapter 8 Japanese Side of the Picture

Box 60 Folder 11

Chapter 9 Korea

Box 60 Folder 12

Chapter 10 MacArthur, Truman, and Formosa

Box 60 Folder 13

Chapter 11 Asia Soft Spots and U.S. Policy

Box 60 Folder 14

Chapter 12 The Treaty and the Future

Box 60 Folder 15

Galley Inserts

Subseries 3: Page Proofs

Box 60 Folder 16

Chapters 1-2

Box 60 Folder 17

Chapters 3-4

Box 60 Folder 18

Chapters 5-6

Box 60 Folder 19

Chapters 7-8

Box 60 Folder 20

Chapters 9-10

Box 60 Folder 21

Chapters 11-12

Box 60 Folder 22

Miscellaneous promotional manuscripts, printing aids

Box 60 Folder 23

Cable files (carbons) sent to Look Magazine on Korean War, Hong Kong, India, and Siam by John Gunther

Subseries 6: Correspondence

Letter and series of six articles (mss.) "China Under the Red Yoke" by Wang Sou-di

Box 62 Folder 16

Post-publication correspondence A-C

Box 62 Folder 17

Post-publication correspondence P-S and unsigned

Series X: Eisenhower-The Man and the Symbol

EISENHOWER-THE MAN AND THE SYMBOL was published in 1952. The materials concerning this minor work of Gunther's are contained in two boxes. The book grew out of a series of articles published in Look magazine in December, 1951. Gunther wrote three long articles for Look on Eisenhower and SHAPE, of which two were published. The manuscripts, therefore, for this book are as follows:

1. Original manuscript-Look magazine articles, typed and corrected by Gunther

2. First Revision or Second Draft, which is Gunther's original manuscript for the much longer book version. Gunther used an uncorrected carbon copy of the Look manuscript and using the "cut and paste" method, made numerous emendations, inserts, and corrections.

3. Printer's copy, with author's corrections.

The correspondence is not extensive, filling only two folders. Among the Informational heading is a memorandum from a Look official on Eisenhower as president of Columbia University. The post-publication correspondence comes from readers who had minor corrections to suggest.

The majority of the notes are interview notes. Gunther interviewed military officials on Eisenhower's SHAPE staff, journalists, and several European statesmen. Among them are Eisenhower himself, General Alfred M. Grunther, Jean Monnet, and General Lauris Norstad.

Subseries 1: Original Manuscripts-Look Articles

Box 63 Folder 1

Part One-"Inside Ike"

Box 63 Folder 2

Part Two-"What Can We Expect of Eisenhower?"

Box 63 Folder 3

Part Three-"Why the Russians Won't Fight in Europe" (unpublished) (1st and 2nd drafts)

Subseries 5: Miscellaneous Materials

Subseries 6: Correspondence

Box 64 Folder 29

Pre-publication

Box 64 Folder 30

Post-publication

Series XI: Inside Africa

INSIDE AFRICA. published in 1955, is one of Gunther's longest books, running to over 950 pages. The materials concerning this book are contained in twenty-two boxes. The manuscripts for this work are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, typed and corrected by Gunther

2. Specialist Review copy. However, only those pages with comments are included as well as memoranda prepared by Gunther's "experts";

3. First Revision or Second Draft, which is a heavily revised copy of a carbon copy of the corrected original manuscript;

4. Printer's copy, which is essentially the Third Draft because of the heavy revisions, more so than in any other of Gunther's works;

5. Galley proofs, with author's corrections.

While in Africa, Gunther prepared numerous articles for publication in popular magazines. He used portions of these articles, though in a revised form, in his published book. The twenty-one articles are included in the collection, some in original manuscript, some carbon copies, some clippings.

The informational correspondence is extensive and has been arranged by country or area and then alphabetically. Gunther corresponded with numerous American and British diplomatic officials, government officials, United Nations officials, businessmen and many others. Among the letters of interest are those of Edgar Sengier, the head of Union Miniere in the Congo; the U. S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Joseph Simonson; a memorandum from the Governor of the gold Coast (Ghana), Sir Charles Arden Clarke who read Gunther's chapter on that country in advance of publication; C. L. Simpson, Liberian Ambassador to the United States; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, on Morocco and North Africa; David Stirling, president of the Capricorn Africa Society; South African attorney and novelist Harry Bloom; the Governor of Tanganyika, Sir Edward Twining; and H. V. L. Swanzy, a high official in the Gold Coast Government.

The Post-publication correspondence is also extensive. It is primarily readers, response. Some of the letters, however, invite Gunther to address various groups, ask for additional information, or offer the correspondent's own views. The correspondence, which comes from all over the worlds, is generally favorable to Gunther's work, but many of the letters take exception to his interpretation, especially those from white settlers in Africa, and particularly in the Union of South Africa. Among the letters of interest are two from Dr. Hastings Banda, at present prime minister of Nyasaland, but then living in the Gold Coast; R. R. Knight, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, and Ann Morisett, an American novelist. Specific correspondence, commenting upon or criticizing individual chapters or parts of chapters, suggesting revisions, pointing out errors of fact, spelling or grammar, is arranged alphabetically by country or area and then alphabetically by author. General correspondence relating to the book as a whole or a substantial portion is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

The research notes are arranged by country or by area. The majority of the notes are interview notes and, where possible, the interviewee has been identified. Gunther states that he interviewed 1503 persons while preparing his African book. Included among them were governors, colonial officials, embassy and consular staffs, journalist, African chieftains, missionaries, businessmen, nationalists, United Nations personnel, and private citizens. A representative list of the many interviewed would include General Mohammed Naguib, then dictator of Egypt; Kwame Nkrumah, prime minister of the Gold Coast; Edgar Segnier of Union Miniere in the Belgian Congo; the king of Ruanda; U. N. official Ralph Bunche; Zulu Chief Albert Luthuli; author Alan Paton; J. G. Strijdo-, then prime minister of the Union of South Africa; Walter White of the N.A.A. C.P.; the Pasha of Marrakesh; General Augustin Gulliaume, President-General of Morocco; Roy Welenski, white extremist leader of Northern Rhodesia; Sylvanus Olympio, then nationalist leader in Togoland, and Father Trever Huddleston, Anglican missionary in South Africa.

There are also numerous memoranda, articles, and circulars prepared by others for Gunther's use. Included among these notes are a private mimeographed memoranda by Chester Bowles on his 1955 trip to Africa, biographical notes on Various African personalities, and a copy of an article by Santha Rama Rau entitled "The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta," of which only a portion was published in The Reporter.

Subseries 1: Original Manuscript

Box 65 Folder 1

Table of Contents, Preface

Box 65 Folder 2

Introduction (1)

Box 65 Folder 3

Chapter 1 The Sultan of Morocco (2)

Box 65 Folder 4

Chapter 2 Moroccan Backdrop (3)

Box 65 Folder 5

Chapter 3 Arab World in North Africa (4)

Box 65 Folder 6

Chapter 4 The French, the Nationalists, the Americans (5)

Box 65 Folder 7

Chapter 5 Lord of the Atlas (6)

Box 65 Folder 8

Chapter 6 Tangier and Return (7)

Box 65 Folder 9

Chapter 7 Algeria-From Firates to Petroleum (8)

Box 65 Folder 10

Chapter 8 Inside Nowhere-The Sahara (9)

Box 65 Folder 11

Chapter 8A The Tunisian Complex (10)

Box 65 Folder 12

Chapter 9 Libya, or a Child Learning to Walk (11)

Box 65 Folder 13

Chapter 12 Crisis and Development in Egypt (12)

Box 65 Folder 14

Chapter 12A Nasser to Naguib to Nasser (13)

Box 65 Folder 15

Chapter 13 The Nile and the Sudan (14)

Box 65 Folder 16

Chapter 13 Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (15)

Box 65 Folder 17

Chapter 14 More About Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the Somalis (16)

Box 65 Folder 18

Chapter 16 Forward to Bantu Africa (17)

Box 66 Folder 1

Chapter 17 Kenya-The Land and the People (18)

Box 66 Folder 2

Chapter 18 Kenya; British Rule in Africa (19)

Box 66 Folder 3

Chapter 18A Kenya-The Mau Maus (20)

Box 66 Folder 4

Chapter 19 East Africa-Animals (21)

Box 66 Folder 5

Chapter 20 The Wonderful World of Tanganyika (22)

Box 66 Folder 6

Chapter 21 Hope and Crisis in Uganda (23)

Box 66 Folder 7

Chapter 24 The Union of South Africa-Successors to Malan (24)

Box 66 Folder 8

Chapter 25 The Union-Country. Towns, and Issues (25)

Box 66 Folder 9

Chapter 26 The Union The Blacks and the Browns (26)

Box 66 Folder 10

Chapter 27 The Union- Gold, diamonds, and South West Africa (27)

Box 66 Folder 11

Chapter 29 Medicine Murder in Basutoland (28)

Box 66 Folder 12

Chapter 30 Portuguese Africa (29)

Box 66 Folder 13

Chapter 31 The Rhodesias and Central African Federation (30)

Box 67 Folder 1

Chapter 31A More About Rhodesia and Nyasaland (31)

Box 67 Folder 2

Chapter 32 Congo I-Belgian Policy in Africa (32)

Box 67 Folder 3

Chapter 33 Congo II-Uranium, Giants, Pygmies (33)

Box 67 Folder 4

Chapter 33 French Rule in Black Africa (34)

Box 67 Folder 5

Chapter 33 A Visit to Dr. Albert Schweitzer (35)

Box 67 Folder 6

Chapter 34 Complexities and Achievements in Nigeria (36-37)

Box 67 Folder 7

Chapter 35 Nigeria-Its Inflammatory Politics (38)

Box 67 Folder 8

Chapter 36 The Nigerian North (39)

Box 67 Folder 9

Chapter 37 Prime Minister Nkrumah of the Gold coast (40)

Box 67 Folder 10

Chapter 38 House of Commons in Black Miniature (41)

Box 67 Folder 11

Chapter 39 The Gold Coast and the Golden Stool (42)

Box 67 Folder 12

Chapter 41 Mr. Tubman of Liberia (43-44)

Box 67 Folder 13

Chapter 42 Dakar and French West Africa (45)

Box 67 Folder 14

Chapter 45 . . . And To Conclude (46)

Box 67 Folder 15

Sources

Box 67 Folder 16

Acknowledgements, Bibliography

Subseries 2: Comments on Manuscript

Box 68 Folder 1

Comments on margin of mss, by Cass Canfield, Eric Larrabee and Eugene Exman (Only pages with corrections and comments)

Box 68 Folder 2

Comments by Cass Canfield, et al. (continued)

Box 68 Folder 3

Comments on Chapters 2-8 (North Africa) by Roger Vaurs of French Press Service

Box 68 Folder 4

Comments on Chapter 9 (Libya) by H. Villard, American Minister to Libya

b) Report on International Reconciliation Fellowship Tour by Nevin and Kathleen Sayre (mimeographed)

Series XII: Inside Russia Today

INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY, published in 1958, was originally conceived as a series of five long articles for Collier's magazine. However, during Gunther's trip to Russia, Collier's ceased publication and Look magazine took over the contract. Look decided to print one very long article instead of the five previously commissioned. The book version, however, is in no way an extension of the Look article. Portions of the Look article are used in the book, but in a heavily revised version, and the approach to the book is from an entirely different point of view. The material concerning this book is contained in twelve boxes.

The manuscripts are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, First Revision or Second Draft (partial), Third Draft (partial) of Look article;

2. Original manuscript of book version, typed and corrected by author;

3. Specialist review copy, however, only those pages with comments by Theodore Shabad, Gunther's "expert," and by Cass Canfield of Harper and Bros. are includes;

4. First Revision or Second Draft, which is only fragmentary. Gunther employed his usual "cut and paste" method and large sections were revised in longhand. However, only those pages which were most heavily revised were retyped. These retyped pages were then further revised and added to the Printer's copy.

5. Printer's copy, with author's corrections and additions;

6. Galley proofs, with author's corrections and additions.

Gunther dictated several of the chapters; therefore, the original manuscript is the recordings. However, after the first typing, Gunther extensively revised these manuscripts, as was his method, and the typescript copies of the dictated chapters with the author's corrections have been included with the original manuscript. The recordings have been filed separately.

The Informational Correspondence is not extensive. it is arranged alphabetically and much of it concerns Gunther's Plans for his trip. Also included among the Informational Correspondence are some post-publication letters from certain of Gunther's personal friends who received complimentary copies of the book. The Post-publication correspondence, which is somewhat more extensive, concerns readers' comment on various questions of fact. It is arranged alphabetically.

The research notes have been catalogues in a different manner for INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY. Gunther reports that he took careful notes of conversations with about eighty Russians; however, many of his notes do not indicate their names or their positions. Rather than arranging the notes by subject, country, or area (and then by interviewee) as has been done with the notes for Gunther's other books, they have been arranged by chapters, according to the original manuscript designation. Therefore, those interview notes which are marked with the name of the interviewee are dispersed throughout the material. Among some of the non-Russians interviewed by Gunther are Charles Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, E. E. Orchard of the British Foreign Office, Isaiah Berlin, Louis Fischer,

K. P. S. Menon, Indian Ambassador to Russia, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Marshall MacDuffie, and numerous embassy and consular officials, journalists and commentators stationed in Moscow or other areas of the Soviet Union. Notes of interviews with directors of universities, museums, institutes, etc., which have been identified are included under the names of their institutions rather than under their personal names. The rest of the notes are arranged by subject within each chapter. However, the designation of the name of a person, Khrushchev for instance, refers to notes about him, not to notes of an interview with him.

Included among miscellaneous materials are a long series of unpublished memoranda written by former Senator William Benton, publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica, on his trip to Russia.

Series XIII: Taken at the Flood-The Story of Albert D. Lasker

TAKEN AT THE FLOOD, published in 1960, is Gunther's only full-length biography. It is the story of Albert D. Lasker, president of Lord and Thomas and called the "Father of Modern Advertising." The materials concerning this book are contained in nine boxes. The manuscripts are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, typed and revised by the author;

2. First Revision or Second Draft, which is heavily revised. Those pages most heavily revised necessitated retyping and were added to the complete manuscript of this draft. The original manuscripts of these pages are filed separately.

3. Printer's Copy, which is also heavily revised by the author. Those pages most heavily revised were retyped and added to the Printer's Copy. The original manuscripts of these pages are filed separately.

4. Galley Proofs, with author's corrections and additions.

The revisions on the various manuscripts are perhaps more extensive for this book than for any other of Gunther's works.

The Informational Correspondence is quite extensive. There is little printed matter on Albert Lasker and Gunther corresponded with Lasker's family, his friends, and former business associates for information and clarification on certain aspects of his life. Included in this section are long memoranda from the Lasker family suggesting revisions of the First Draft, to most of which Gunther agreed. Among the letters of interest are those from former Senator William Benton, a one-time employee in Lasker's firm, Emerson Foote, vice-president of McCann-Brickson and a former vice-president of Lord and Thomas, Alexander de Seversky, the aeronautical engineer, and Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. There are only two folders of Post-Publication correspondence, many of the letters to Gunther relating additional stories about Lasker or different versions of some story in the published work.

The primary source material for the Lasker book is interview notes. All of the interviewees have been identified in the guide. Among them are William Benton, Fairfax Cone, Samuel Goldwyn, Paul Hopkins, Robert Hutchins, Anna Rosenberg, Alexander de Seversky, Herbert Bayard Swope, and David Sarnoff.

There is also one box which might be classified "The Papers of Albert D. Lasker." This box includes correspondence to and from Lasker. copies of correspondence, a copy of Lasker's reminiscences recorded and transcribed by the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University, copies of Lasker's testimony before various congressional committees, and other materials. Of special interest is the correspondence between Lasker and Senator James Murray and his staff concerning congressional action on cancer research and aid to medical education and the correspondence concerning Lasker's resignation as a University of Chicago trustee in 1942.

Subseries 1: Original Manuscript

Box 99 Folder 1

Chapter 1 A Glimpse of Things to Come

Box 99 Folder 2

Chapter 2 Out of the Texas Frontier

Box 99 Folder 3

Chapter 3 A Meteor Let Loose

Box 99 Folder 4

Chapter 4 Early Years at Lord & Thomas

Box 99 Folder 5

Chapter 5 Salesmanship in Print

Box 99 Folder 6

Chapter 5A Chicago Days (6)

Box 99 Folder 7

Chapter 6 First Taste of Politics (7)

Box 99 Folder 8

Chapter 7 Baseball (8)

Box 99 Folder 9

Chapter 8 Washington and the Shipping Board (9)

Box 99 Folder 10

Chapter 9 Back to Advertising-The Great Accounts (10)

Box 99 Folder 11

Chapter 10 More Chicago Days (11)

Box 99 Folder 12

Chapter 11 Zenith (12-13)

Box 99 Folder 13

Chapter 12 Deprivation, Discontent, Despair (14)

Box 99 Folder 14

Chapter 13 Mary (15)

Box 99 Folder 15

Chapter 13A The End of Lord & Thomas (17)

Box 100 Folder 1

Chapter 14 Money (18)

Box 100 Folder 2

Chapter 15 New York, Fun, and Friends (19)

Box 100 Folder 3

Chapter 16 New Worlds in Art . . . (20)

Box 100 Folder 4

Chapter 16A . . . and Medicine (21)

Box 100 Folder 5

Chapter 17 Terminus (22)

Box 100 Folder 6

Sources and Acknowledgments

Subseries 2: First Revision (Second Draft)

Box 100 Folder 7

Retyped pages for 2nd Draft-Chapter 1

Box 100 Folder 8

Retyped pages for 2nd Draft-Chapters 2-8

Box 100 Folder 9

Retyped pages for 2nd Draft-Chapters 9-13

Box 100 Folder 10

Retyped pages for 2nd Draft-Chapters 14-22, Sources

Box 100 Folder 11

Chapters 1-2

Box 100 Folder 12

Chapters 3-4

Box 100 Folder 13

Chapters 5-6

Box 100 Folder 14

Chapters 7-8

Box 100 Folder 15

Chapters 9-10

Box 100 Folder 16

Chapters 11-12

Box 100 Folder 17

Chapters 13-14

Box 100 Folder 18

Chapters 15-16

Box 101 Folder 1

Chapters 17-18

Box 101 Folder 2

Chapters 19-20

Box 101 Folder 3

Chapters 21-22

Box 101 Folder 4

Sources and Acknowledgments

Subseries 3: Printer's Copy

Box 101 Folder 5

Retyped pages for printer's Copy-Chapters 1-19

Box 101 Folder 6

Retyped pages for printer's Copy-Chapters 20-21

Box 101 Folder 7

Excerpts of correspondence inserted in text

Box 101 Folder 8

Chapter 1

Box 101 Folder 9

Chapters 2-3

Box 101 Folder 10

Chapter 4

Box 101 Folder 11

Chapter 5

Box 101 Folder 12

Chapter 6

Box 101 Folder 13

Chapter 7

Box 101 Folder 14

Chapters 8-9

Box 101 Folder 15

Chapter 10

Box 101 Folder 16

Chapter 11

Box 101 Folder 17

Chapters 12-13

Box 102 Folder 1

Chapters 14-15

Box 102 Folder 2

Chapters 16-17

Box 102 Folder 3

Chapters 18-19

Box 102 Folder 4

Chapters 20-21

Box 102 Folder 5

Chapter 22, Sources and Acknowledgments

Subseries 4: Galley Proofs

Box 102 Folder 6

Chapters 1-4

Box 102 Folder 7

Chapters 5-8

Box 102 Folder 8

Chapters 9-12

Box 102 Folder 9

Chapters 13-16

Box 102 Folder 10

Chapters 17-20

Box 102 Folder 11

Chapters 21-22, Sources and Acknowledgments

Box 102 Folder 12

Original manuscripts of galley inserts

Subseries 5: Miscellaneous Materials

Box 102 Folder 13

Miscellaneous original manuscript pages and fragments of pages

Box 102 Folder 14

Corrected pages of carbon copy (Cass Canfield)

Box 102 Folder 15

Sketches on life of Albert Lasker

Box 102 Folder 16

Detzer-Robichaud notes on Albert Lasker

Box 102 Folder 17

Printed, near-print materials on Albert Lasker

Subseries 6: Informational Correspondence

Box 103 Folder 1

William Benton

Box 103 Folder 2

Mary and Leigh Block

Box 103 Folder 3

Frances Lasker Brody

Box 103 Folder 4

John T. Cahill and staff

Box 103 Folder 5

Emerson Foote

Box 103 Folder 6

Alfred Frankfurter

Box 103 Folder 7

Robert Koretz

Box 103 Folder 8

Edward Lusker

Box 103 Folder 9

Mary Lasker and staff

Box 103 Folder 10

Anna M. Rosenberg

Box 103 Folder 11

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Box 103 Folder 12

Alexander de Seversky

Box 103 Folder 13

Lewis L. Strauss

Box 103 Folder 14

A-G

Box 103 Folder 15

H-Z

Box 103 Folder 16

Post-publication correspondence A-K

Box 103 Folder 17

Post-publication correspondence L-Z

Subseries 7: Research Notes

Box 104 Folder 1

Interview notes

William Benton (Former Senator, Publisher, Britannica)

Box 104 Folder 2

Interview notes

Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations Counsel)

Leigh Block (Inland Steel Co.)

Box 104 Folder 3

Interview notes

Mrs. Leigh Block (Mary Lasker)

Box 104 Folder 4

Interview notes

Dr. George Brazill (National Guard General, dentist)

Box 104 Folder 5

Interview notes

Mrs. Sidney Brody (Frances Lasker)

Box 104 Folder 6

Interview notes

Edward E. Brown (First National Bank, Chicago)

Box 104 Folder 7

Interview notes

John T. Cahill (Attorney)

Box 104 Folder 8

Interview notes

Fairfax Cone (Foote, Cone, and Belding)

Box 104 Folder 9

Interview notes

Sheldon Coons (Former Vice-President, Lord and Thomas)

Box 104 Folder 10

Interview notes

Dr. George Daniels (Psychiatrist)

Morris Ernst (Attorney, author)

Box 104 Folder 11

Interview notes

Emerson Foote (Foote, Cone, and Belding)

Box 104 Folder 12

Interview notes

Don Francisco (Former President, Lord and Thomas)

Box 104 Folder 13

Interview notes

Alfred Frankfurter (Editor. Art News)

Box 104 Folder 14

Interview notes

Bernard Gimbel (Merchant)

Samuel Goldwyn (Motion Picture Producer)

Lou Hartman (L. H. Hartman Advertising Co.)

Box 104 Folder 15

Interview notes

John D. Hertz (Financier)

Paul Hoffman (Studebaker Corp., E.C.A., Ford Foundation)

Box 104 Folder 16

Interview notes

Albert Hopkins (Attorney)

Robert M. Hutchins (Former Chancellor, Univ. of Chicago)

Box 104 Folder 17

Interview notes

Eleanor Kerrigan (Former secretary)

Edwin Knopf (Motion Picture Producer)

Robert Koretz (Vice-President, Foote, Cone, and Belding)

Box 104 Folder 18

Interview notes

Edward Lasker (Son, attorney)

Box 104 Folder 19

Interview notes

Edward Lasker (continued)

Box 104 Folder 20

Interview notes

Loula Lasker (sister)

Box 105 Folder 1

Interview notes

Mary Woodward Lasker (Mrs. Albert D. Lasker)

Box 105 Folder 2

Interview notes

Mary Lasker (continued)

Box 105 Folder 3

Interview notes

Mary Lasker (continued)

Box 105 Folder 4

Interview notes

Dr. Richard Loeb (Columbia Presbyterian Hospital)

Earle Ludgin (Earle Ludgin, Inc., Advertising)

Box 105 Folder 5

Interview notes

Leonard Lyons (Columnist)

Box 105 Folder 6

Interview notes

Ernst Mahler (Kimberly-Clark Corp.)

Box 105 Folder 7

Interview notes

Samuel Marx (Architect)

Merrill Meigs (Aviation expert)

André Meyer (Banker)

Box 105 Folder 8

Interview notes

Nancy Morris (Maid)

Box 105 Folder 9

Interview notes

David Noyes (Former Vice-President, Lord and Thomas)

Box 105 Folder 10

Interview notes

Emery Reves (Agent and art collector)

Box 105 Folder 11

Interview notes

Anna M. Rosenberg (Assistant Secretary of Defense)

Box 105 Folder 12

Interview notes

David Sarnoff (Radio Corporation of America)

Box 105 Folder 13

Interview notes

Richard Simon (Simon & Schuster, Publishers)

Alexander de Seversky (Aviation expert)

Box 105 Folder 14

Interview notes

Ralph Sollitt (Former President, Lord and Thomas)

Box 105 Folder 15

Interview notes

Benjamin Sonnenberg (Public Relations Counselor)

David Stern (Broker)

Box 105 Folder 16

Interview notes

Herbert Bayard Swope (Author and editor)

John Wheeler (North American Newspaper Alliance)

Norman Winston (Financier and Housing Specialist)

Box 105 Folder 17

Interview notes

Miscellaneous

Box 106 Folder 1

Miscellaneous notes on Albert Lasker

Box 106 Folder 2

Miscellaneous notes on Albert Lasker

Box 106 Folder 3

Miscellaneous notes on Lasker family

Box 106 Folder 4

Miscellaneous notes on Lord and Thomas and advertising

Box 106 Folder 5

Miscellaneous notes on politics

Box 106 Folder 6

Miscellaneous notes on Manton case

Box 106 Folder 7

Miscellaneous notes on sports

Box 106 Folder 8

Miscellaneous notes on health

Box 106 Folder 9

Miscellaneous notes on art

Box 106 Folder 10

Miscellaneous notes

Box 106 Folder 11

Notes on sources and acknowledgments, names

Box 106 Folder 12

Outlines, agendas, possible titles

Box 106 Folder 13

Check sheets, additions, watch sheets

Box 106 Folder 14

Check sheets, additions, watch sheets

Box 106 Folder 15

Check sheets, watch sheets, additions

Subseries 8: Albert Lasker Materials

Box 107 Folder 1

Miscellaneous Correspondence-A-L

Box 107 Folder 2

Miscellaneous Correspondence-M-Z

Box 107 Folder 3

Copies of letters from Lasker to his father; Morris Lasker to his son (1915)

Box 107 Folder 4

Correspondence concerning Lasker's resignation as University of Chicago Trustee-1942

Box 107 Folder 5

Correspondence with Senator James Murray of Montana and his staff concerning Congressional action on cancer research aid to medical education, etc.-January-June 1949

Box 107 Folder 6

Correspondence with Senator James Murray and staff-August 1949- January 1950

"The Reminiscences of Albert Davis Lasker"-Oral History Research Office

Box 107 Folder 10

"The Lasker Story…As He Told It"-Advertising Age (Published version of informal talk Lasker gave to employees of Lord and Thomas in 1925), 1952-53

Box 107 Folder 11

Copy of testimony by Lasker before senate committee on Cancer

Research bill, July 3, 1946

Box 107 Folder 13

Copy of testimony by Lasker before Senate Committee on Coordinate

Health Functions of the Federal Government, July 11, 1947

Box 107 Folder 14

Remarks made by Lasker at dinner in honor of Alexander Seversky, July 12, 1943

Series XIV: Inside Europe Today

INSIDE EUROPE TODAY, published in 1961 was originally conceived as an article for Reader's Digest. Gunther, however, turned out the longest article, some 42,000 words, that the Digest had ever received, and it was never published in its entirety. Gunther then added to the material and extended it into a full-length book, approximately three times longer than the Reader's Digest manuscript. The materials concerning this work are contained in eight boxes. The manuscripts are as follows:

1. Original manuscript: Reader/s Digest, typed and corrected by author;

2. First Revision or Second Draft-Reader's Digest, which is heavily revised;

3. Original Manuscript of Additional chapters, which are, in this instance, records of dictation;

4. First Revision or Second Draft of additional chapters, which is a typescript of the dictated chapters heavily revised by author;

5. Printers copy, which is a carbon copy of the material above which has been merged, However, it is heavily revised, with numerous retyped pages and inserts. Gunther employed the "cut and paste" method,

6. Galley proofs, with author's corrections. Several of the chapters have been heavily revised.

No post-publication correspondence was included in the original deposits. The informational correspondence, which is not extensive, concerns mainly factual material. Included among the material are several memoranda by Look officials on, the Polaris missile, interview notes of Louis Duff with Charles Wilson. Secretary of Defense and Admiral Arleigh Burke. Chief of Naval Operations, and a letter from the editorial research Department of Reader's Digest on Harold Macmillan's relationship with the American Macmillan Company.

The majority of the notes are interview notes. Among those interviewed by Gunther were Willy Brandt, Ludwig Erhardt, Georges Bonnet, Jean Monnat, Giovanni Gronchi, Hugh Gaitskell, Selwyn LIoyu, Harold Macmillan, and numerous other European politicians and statesmen, embassy officials, and American journalists and radio commentators.

Series XV: Juvenile Books

Included with the Juvenile Books, is the manuscript for DAYS TO REMEMBER-AMERICA 1945-1955, a pictorial book published in 1956, written by Gunther in collaboration with Bernard Quint, the associate art editor of Life. Only the manuscripts for this work are part of the collection. Much of the text was in the form of captions for the 400 or more photographs in the volume. The manuscripts are as follows:

1. Original manuscript, in longhand by author, with corrections;

2. First Revision or Second Draft, typed and heavily revised by author.

Gunther wrote three children's books on historical and mythical characters. They are ALEXANDER THE GREAT. published in 1953, JULIUS CAESAR, and THE GOLDEN FLEECE, the latter two published in 1959, Obviously, there are no interview notes for these works. Only the original manuscript of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, which is very heavily revised, is a part of the collection. Two manuscripts of JULIUS CAESAR are included in the collection:

1. Original manuscript, typed by the author and very heavily revised;

2. First Revision or Second Draft, which is also very heavily revised.

The manuscripts of THE GOLDEN FLEECE are of special interest. In the original manuscript, Gunther faithfully recounted the gory legend of Jason and Medea, but subsequently toned down the bloodthirstiness in later drafts. The manuscripts are as follows:

1: Original manuscript, in longhand by the author with corrections:

2. First Revision or Second Draft, typed and heavily revised;

3. Second Revision or Third Draft, which is also heavily revised by author.

Gunther has also written a series of juvenile works on Africa, which are revised versions for younger readers of some of his chapters from INSIDE AFRICA. He has written a revised version of INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY, entitled MEET SOVIET RUSSIA, published in two volumes in 1962. However, only the manuscripts for MEET THE CONGO are included in the collection. The manuscripts are as follows:

1. First Revision or Second Draft, with corrections by author;

2. Printer's copy, with author's corrections.

Subseries 1: Days to Remember

Box 116 Folder 1

Original manuscript

Box 116 Folder 2

Original manuscript

Box 116 Folder 3

Original manuscript

Box 116 Folder 4

2nd draft

Box 116 Folder 5

2nd draft

Box 116 Folder 6

2nd draft

Box 116 Folder 7

Retyped pages

Subseries 2: Alexander the Great

Box 116 Folder 8

Original Manuscript-Chapters 1-5

Box 116 Folder 9

Original Manuscript-Chapters 6-12

Box 116 Folder 10

Original Manuscript-Chapters 13-20

Box 116 Folder 11

Outlines, corrections of manuscript and comments

Subseries 3: The Golden Fleece

Box 116 Folder 12

Original Manuscript

Box 116 Folder 13

2nd Draft

Box 116 Folder 14

3rd Draft

Box 116 Folder 15

Corrections of manuscript and comments

Subseries 4: Meet the Congo

Box 117 Folder 1

Original Manuscript-Chapters 1-4

Box 117 Folder 2

Original Manuscript-Chapters 5-7

Box 117 Folder 3

Original Manuscript-Chapters 8-11

Box 117 Folder 4

Printer's Copy-Chapters 1-3

Box 117 Folder 5

Printer's Copy-Chapters 4-7

Box 117 Folder 6

Printer's Copy-Chapters 8-9

Box 117 Folder 7

Printer's Copy-Chapters 10-12

Subseries 5: Julius Caesar

Box 117 Folder 8

Original Manuscript-Chapters 1-9

Box 117 Folder 9

Original Manuscript-Chapters 10-17

Box 117 Folder 10

2nd Draft-Chapters 1-9

Box 117 Folder 11

2nd Draft-Chapters 10-19

Box 117 Folder 12

Retyped pages

Box 117 Folder 13

Corrections of manuscript and comments

Box 117 Folder 14

Miscellaneous correspondence on juvenile books

Series XVI: Correspondence

Included among the Papers of John Gunther are two boxes of correspondence, mostly between Gunther and his publishers, Harper and Brothers and Hamish Hamilton. Gunther said of this correspondence-"My friends at Harper's perhaps exaggerate, but they say that they have no knowledge of any other file which shows so intimately and over such a sustained period the various factors which are constantly at play in the relationship between a publisher and an author-literary, financial, editorial, etc." The correspondence covers the years from 1936 to 1961. However, the material from 1936 to 1949 is more complete, coming from the files of Harper and Brothers. The post-1949 correspondence was extracted from the original deposit and had been scattered throughout the collection with each specific book, but was brought together in this section. The correspondence deals mostly with publishing matters, but several of the letters contain some of Gunther's views on history, economic theory and other matters. The material has been arranged chronologically.

There is also some miscellaneous correspondence concerned with requests for autographs, asking Gunther to speak at meetings or to contribute articles to journals, or simply friendly letters telling Gunther how much the reader has enjoyed all of his books. Some of the Letters refer to articles Gunther has written in popular magazines or are responses to his television show "High Road."

Subseries 1: Harper & Bros. (Hamish Hamilton)

Box 118 Folder 1

1935

Box 118 Folder 2

January-March 1936

Box 118 Folder 3

April-December 1936

Box 118 Folder 4

March-December 1937

Box 118 Folder 5

1938

Box 118 Folder 6

1939

Box 118 Folder 7

1940-1941

Box 118 Folder 8

1942

Box 118 Folder 9

1943

Box 118 Folder 10

1944

Box 118 Folder 11

1945

Box 118 Folder 12

January-June 1946

Box 118 Folder 13

July-October 1946

Box 118 Folder 14

November-December 1946

Box 118 Folder 15

January-February 1947

Box 118 Folder 16

March-April 1947

Box 118 Folder 17

May 1-May 15, 1947

Box 118 Folder 18

May 16-May 31, 1947

Box 118 Folder 19

June 1947

Box 119 Folder 1

July-September 1947

Box 119 Folder 2

October-December 1947

Box 119 Folder 3

January-June 1948

Box 119 Folder 4

July-December 1948

Box 119 Folder 5

January-March 1949

Box 119 Folder 6

April-December 1949

Box 119 Folder 7

1950-1952

Box 119 Folder 8

1953-1954

Box 119 Folder 9

1955-1957

Box 119 Folder 10

1953-1961

Subseries 2: Miscellaneous Correspondence

Box 119 Folder 11

A-B

Box 119 Folder 12

C-F

Box 119 Folder 13

G

Box 119 Folder 14

H

Box 119 Folder 15

I-L

Box 119 Folder 16

M

Box 119 Folder 17

N-P

Box 119 Folder 18

R-S

Box 119 Folder 19

T-Z

Series XVII: Chicago Revisited

Chicago Revisited was commissioned and masterminded by Fairfax M. Cone, chairman of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees, and Carl Larsen, director for Public Relations. John Gunther, an alumnus, was asked to write an essay capturing his impressions of the University. The work would be based upon Gunther's visit to the Midway in April 1964 and information compiled by Larsen's office, including faculty profiles.

Gunther's first draft, submitted to Larsen in June 1964, was ready by Cone, who made suggestions as to changes. Many of these were incorporated into a "first revision", authored by Larsen's office. This version was then circulated among administrators and faculty, who were solicited for comments. The "second revision", based on these remarks, was subsequently sent to Gunther for reworking. His final manuscript was published by the University in May 1967. Condensed versions of Chicago Revisited also appeared as articles in Chicago Today, Saturday Review, and Midwest magazines